The rollout was scheduled for tomorrow. Several teams, hundreds of players, have relocated to the safe zones in anticipation. And because of game mechanics, you can only set up a continent with existing buildings at the first capture, so… some of us have moved off our contenents and placed our buildings in storage already. It’s not easy getting 50 people to move, and now I have to tell the boys that we’ll be homeless for weeks? Very very distressing.

I count 10 Beta Teams that have consolidated all of their forces along one specific Expansion Area. And with all the new Sapphire 1 teams that joined in recent weeks, that’s maybe 1000(?) players stuck waiting.

Give us half the rollout, any half (I won’t complain), and release some of this frustration.
I sent you a message last night (from Australia, would be AM in America). Please take a sec to give me a Yes or No.

The following teams have been granted access to Atlas. Will be monitoring their progress in tutorial today and tomorrow. Provided things continue smoothly the remaining teams will be added shortly thereafter. Thank you for your continue patience.

Have you noticed how few replies you get here in the Atlas Section?
Players can see that Atlas is becoming a ghost town, a lost cause, a wasted effort that is no longer supported by PG. PG priorities include rebalancing, team events, two new dragons, end of a season, everything except Atlas.

We see the QtW event starting in 48 hours, and shields going up for the duration. With shields, will be necessary to run your 4th non-kill event in a row. Then, when you release the expansion sometime after QtW, you’ll have no choice but to correspond the release with a kill event. But with so many teams, so many troops, and so much land up for grabs, your new teams will have no time to get settled. It will be hell. Anyone who hasn’t already lost interest is going to rage quit.

Saying Atlas is no longer supported by PG or isn’t a priority is absolutely risible. I will agree that the new teams are by and large getting a baptism by fire, but Atlas is a far more forgiving place than it used to be and there is a massive amount of land getting released. Most if not all teams should be able to find a piece of the map to call their own.

I’ve heard that some teams currently in Diamond league (sadsacks to be specific) haven’t yet been added. Not sure if they moved up between the last two releases but I’d assume that all diamond teams would be scrubbed through and added along with the sapphire teams.

Hi @Spooky,
When I posted, it sure felt as though PG had given up on Atlas. Since then, we got this little gem from @pgEcho

pgEcho:

New lands wont be release this week. Likely next week after the major event has ended.

So, silence for a week, then a “maybe later” reply, does Atlas feel like a priority to you? Because I stand by my statement. I feel that PG has a list of priorities, and Atlas comes 5th, 6th… But I’d be happy to be proven wrong.

All teams from this original list have now been granted access to Atlas. Pending smooth progress into atlas, we will look to release the originally slated PVP regions at some point next week. We will re-update this thread with a status update on how we are tracking later this week or early next week.

Congratulations to the teams at the bottom of this post who, based on their placement into Sapphire 2 or above this week, will be added to the Atlas on November 15th!
With this addition of teams to Atlas, we will be expanding the number of playable regions. To orient you with the image, the high contrast central area is the current playable area in the Atlas map. We will unlock new neutral regions on Nov 15th, giving the new and old teams a chance to orient themselves with the new territories (…